Atonement was a sublime book. Seeing the film afterwards was more enjoyable as a result.

Saturday lived up to my high expectations. I don't know for sure, but I'd guess that in these two books the world that is described is very different from McEwan's background. I supposed all books …

My dad's wife died on 9th February, two weeks ago now. At the funeral on the following Saturday, I was honoured to be asked to read Daisies by Andrew Young.

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The latest on my mini-campaign against software patents: my MP, Andrew Murrison, wrote on my behalf to David Lammy, the Minister of State for Higher Education and Intellectual Property.

In his reply, David mentioned that the President of the European Patent Office has referred the question of software patents to …

It doesn't arrive until about Thursday, but I bought a Giant Trance X 5 today. Don't ask me how much it was, it was extravagant, but now the die is cast. I needed to make my mind up because my brother needs his bike back next weekend. I'm excited!

One of the dogs found a cardboard box, climbed in, and settled down to sleep! This was taken at my aunt's house in Kenya.

Dave Andrews said to me one day, 'we should really read The Wealth Of Nations you know'. That was some time ago, and I've now just finished Volume 1.

The theory is pretty much as I thought it would be, but all of Smith's arguments are filled with historical detail …

In my ideal programming language, the size of the integer type would only be limited by the storage space of the machine, it wouldn't have an artificial limit. It would be like the BigInt type in Java. This is exactly what Clojure does. Brilliant!

There isn't such an elegant solution …

I'm annoyed that the EU could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with Windows. If people want a good OS they can buy a computer with Ubuntu. Please allow proprietary software a graceful decline and fall.